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In many ways, "The Americans" has it all: Sex, violence, Cold War intrigue, Reagan-era fashions (oh, that hair!), marriage as metaphor, Margo Martindale … the list goes on and on. If it weren't on FX and full of Americans, you'd think it had been made by the BBC. It also has the one big and too often ignored problem shared by so many shows that ask viewers to accept crime and violence as necessary plot-points: Kids. The couple to whom the title refers, Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip (Matthew Rhys) Jennings, are a pair of Soviet spies who had been living and working in the D.C. suburbs for more than a decade when we met them last year. During that first...

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In many ways, "The Americans" has it all: Sex, violence, Cold War intrigue, Reagan-era fashions (oh, that hair!), marriage as metaphor, Margo Martindale … the list goes on and on. If it weren't on FX and full of Americans, you'd think it had...

BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Noah Emmerich was born in New York on this day in 1965. This birthday guy has recently appeared in recurring roles on TV shows such as "Backwash," "The Walking Dead" and "White Collar." On the big...